Controlled explosion brings down final three tower blocks at the town’s Queens Park on Sunday, 31 July 2016 between 10am and 11am. Blackpool’s skyline changed in seconds as a controlled explosion brought down the final three tower blocks at the town’s Queens Park estate. Twenty-three storey Walter Robinson Court and 16-storey Elizabeth and Churchill Courts – dating from the 1960s and early 1970s – were reduced to rubble to make way for a 190-home Lovell regeneration scheme. As part of the regeneration the rubble will be recycled as a base course for new roads and to raise the western part of the site. It was set for completion in early 2018.
